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    • All Day
      4/1/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 6:30 pm
      4/1/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Life can sometimes be chaotic, stressful, and overwhelming. Although others may be unable to see it by looking at us, we sometimes feel shattered like broken pottery. Some of the objects at the Spurlock Museum are broken, too. Even as part of a whole, these fragments remain rich, interesting, and tell a compelling story just like fragments in our lives.  

    • All Day
      4/2/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/3/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 1:30 pm
      4/3/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Celebrate the Boneyard Arts Festival by joining Spurlock Museum’s newest student gallery guides on a mini tour. This mini tour explores why artists, artisans, and cultural makers create. The tour is condensed to highlight only a few objects so you’ll have more time to see other things on view at the Museum.

    • All Day
      4/5/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/6/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/7/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

  • Sandeep Das, tabla virtuoso
    • 7:00 pm
      4/7/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das will lead a workshop introducing classical Indian rhythms and his approach to collaboration in the tradition and as well as in cross-cultural global music ensembles.

    • All Day
      4/8/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

  • Sandeep Das, tabla virtuoso, and Mike Block, pioneering cello player
    • 3:00 pm
      4/8/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Mike Block is a pioneering cello player, singer, composer, and educator, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the "ideal musician of the 21st-Century." Along with tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das, participants in this workshop will gain a better understanding of how improvisation factors in the work of this exceptionally eclectic duo.

  • Sandeep Das, tabla virtuoso, and Mike Block, pioneering cello player
    • 7:00 pm
      4/8/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Sandeep Das (tabla) & Mike Block (cello/vocals) are a dynamic, cross-genre duo that originally met as members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. This energetic duo has been performing since 2013, sharing their music throughout America and India via tours and residencies, and even on the stage of Carnegie Hall.

    • All Day
      4/9/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/10/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

  • Embroidered flowers on a textile made in 18th century France.
    • 1:00 - 3:30 pm
      4/10/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    An Afternoon in Bloom is a celebration of National Garden Month. Create craft blooms representing national flowers from around the world. Receive your own flower pot, soil, and seeds to start a flower garden at home. Join our storyteller, Kim Sanford, at 2:00 pm for flower-related stories.

    • All Day
      4/12/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/13/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/14/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 7:00 pm
      4/14/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Join local HIV/AIDS community group members and health professionals in dialogue around the film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP—The Grassroots Movement to End the AIDS Crisis. The film is available to UIUC library users via Kanopy.

    • All Day
      4/15/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 1:00 - 3:30 pm
      4/15/2022
    • Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory Street, Urbana

    Need something fun to do with little ones today? Join our staff on Friday, April 15 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm for a variety of crafts and storytelling sessions by Kim Sanford. The performances will be held at 1:15 and 2:15. All ages are welcome!

    • All Day
      4/16/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/17/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/19/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 7:00 pm
      4/19/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    • All Day
      4/20/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 1:15 - 1:45 pm
      4/20/2022

    Take a soothing lunch break and join Kim Sheahan Sanford, our assistant director of education and resident storyteller, for family-friendly stories from around the world. Past events from the series (external link) are available for viewing on Facebook.

    • 4:30 pm
      4/20/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    Professor Richard Lazarus will discuss his recent book, The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court, which tells the inside story leading to the Supreme Court’s most important environmental law case, Massachusetts v. EPA.

    • All Day
      4/21/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/22/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/23/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/24/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 2:00 pm
      4/24/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    Join C-U’s celebration of UNESCO’s International Jazz Day and listen to the ways sax players have fallen in love with both the instrument and the repertoire. After each player talks and performs individually, they’ll all come together in a jazz jam that’ll blow us out of the hall . . . and over to the Rose Bowl Tavern for an afterglow performance.

    • 4:00 pm
      4/25/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    Sato Moughalian’s highly-lauded book A Feast of Ashes (2019) gathers family archives together with historical and art historical research to tell the story of Moughalian’s grandfather, David Ohannessian. In this talk, she will describe the moving contrasts and echoes she experienced between the legacies inherited from the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

    • All Day
      4/26/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 6:30 pm
      4/26/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    The AIDS Memorial Quilt commemorates lives lost to HIV/AIDS related diseases. Join Spurlock Museum gallery guides for a brief exhibit tour of Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois. After the tour, create a quilt square to honor your lost loved one. The exhibit tour begins at 6:30 pm followed by a creating making activity.

    • All Day
      4/27/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/28/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • All Day
      4/29/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 2:00 pm
      4/29/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    The Farewell A film by Lulu Wang, 2019, 100 minutes. In-person screening. Online panel discussion with scholar Beth Tsai (UC Santa Barbara) & Rancy Wang (Talent Manager) Friday, April 29, 2022 - 2 pm Spurlock Museum of World Cultures 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL Admission Free

    • All Day
      4/30/2022
    • 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois

    A new exhibit, Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment

    • 6:00 pm
      4/30/2022
    • Spurlock Museum

    Students in MACS 464: Film Festivals organize, promote, and produce this annual film festival featuring short films of all genres and TikToks created by undergraduates across the University of Illinois campus. Join us for a celebration of student creativity! For further information, visit https://www.uiucfilmfest.com/